Hallelujah!
For the first time since 1999, I was able to subscribe,view and download from a newsgroup without much of a problem. Newsgroups were more prevalent in the days before widespread celebrity message boards to find your celeb pics and ahem...other stuff.
I originally used AOL newsgroups and that was easy enough but naturally with boards like WWoW I lost interest in fishing for celeb pics after while.
Apparently as files have gotten larger a lot of the groups have been using a binary transfer encoding called yEnc which is more efficient and faster to download large files. Problem is, some newsreaders like Outlook and Thunderbird can't read yEnc.
You'll get crazy characters as text instead when trying to view groups that use this encoding.
I'd figure these two would be the most commonly used newsreaders out there! It's even worse that a Mozilla program would fail us!
Anyway the point in bringing up this discussion is, there's probably a lot of users that get disgusted when they can't find a solution to this encoding problem and don't really know what to do next.
Here's my solution, a nice program called Ozum NewsReader:
http://www.ozinsight.com/client/
http://www.ozinsight.com/download/
It reads everything, splits together files, it's a beautiful thing. Newsgroups are still the wild west of the Internet, so proceed with caution.
If anybody has a newsreader they swear by post it in this thread! The main thing is, don't allow your e-mail and news client prevent you from getting the most out of what's available on the Internet.
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